Victor Ray

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Victor Ray is an assistant professor of sociology whose expertise includes race and ethnicity, gender and discrimination.

Topics of expertise: race and ethnicity, gender, discrimination

Recent media coverage:

National Geographic has reckoned with its past, declaring in an editorial this month that "For Decades, Our Coverage was Racist." For its latest issues, the magazine turned a critical eye on its own archives. CBC Radio, March 14; Nonprofit Quarterly, March 13

This is a common American political narrative: venerating dead black heroes while pillorying the living. The United States has a history of lionizing black folks it helped send to the grave. Washington Post, May 31